Psychiatrist Dr. Louis Jolyon West’s interest in mind control began when, as Chief of Psychiatry Service at the Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, he examined POWs from the Korean War to determine the effects of torture and brainwashing. His experience in this field allowed him to serve as an expert witness in the case of Patricia Hearst, the famous socialite kidnap victim-turned convicted bank robber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Hearst

Dr. Jolyon West, Jack Ruby, Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan, and Oklahoma City
Among West’s other famous clients was nightclub owner and assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby. West’s examination of Ruby resulted in Ruby’s diagnosis of mental illness and prescription of psychiatric drugs, which Ruby charged were “poison.” Though West is hailed for helping commute Ruby’s death sentence, Ruby died in prison of cancer two years later, convinced that he was injected with malignant biological material by his captors.
West examined Sirhan Sirhan, alleged assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, and widely suspected of being the victim of a method of brainwashing known as “psychic driving,” a technique made infamous by Dr. Ewen Cameron when he placed patients into long-term comatose states without their consent and played selected phrases continuously to the patient in loops in order to break down psychological barriers to “open the conciousness” of the “subject.”

Oklahoma City Bombing

West headed the American Psychological Association (APA) trauma response team that rushed to Oklahoma City in the wake of the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. Timothy McVeigh, convicted of the bombing, was examined by John Douglas of the FBI’s Psychological Profile Unit, who determined that McVeigh was “an easily controlled and manipulated personality.”Drug War and Social Control

In Hallucinations: Behavior, Experience, and Theory (1975) West and a colleague discussed selective drug prohibition as a
means of social control:

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The role of drugs in the exercise
of political control is also coming under increasing discussion. Control can
be through prohibition or supply. The total or even partial prohibition of
drugs gives the government considerable leverage for other types of control.
An example would be the selective application of drug laws… against selected
components of the population such as members of certain minority groups or
political organizations[5]

Dr. West infamously killed a prized elephant at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City in 1962 during an experiment in which he injected an extraordinarily large dose of LSD into the animal, before being appointed head of the Department of Psychiatry, Neurology and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine.

Federal agents attempt to raid a property belonging to a religious group called the Branch Davidians. The Davidians were suspected of “weapons violations.” A shootout ensued, with no verification of who shot first. Four agents were killed and six Davidians in this first assault. A 51 day standoff ensued.

On April 19, 1993, the ATF and the FBI launched a siege to end the weeks-long standoff. Flammable gas was inserted into the compound with tanks. The gas later ignited, somehow, and the Davidians inside died in the resulting fire. 76 Davidians, including 21 children, perished on that day.

Tim McVeigh, veteran, convicted of the Oklahoma City Bombing two years later. Here he is seen sitting on his car passing out bumper stickers saying: "Is your church ATF approved?" -during Waco standoff. Photo courtesy of:http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/04/13/4773074/waco-a-look-back.html .

Two years later to the day, an explosion in Oklahoma City would mark the anniversary of the final Waco seige with even more blood:

The official story of the OKC bombing is widely disputed. Retired army munitions expert Ben Partin and and former state senator John DeCamp are among those who refuse to accept the story that McVeigh acted with only two accomplices on April 19. Freedom of Information Act requests filed by Jesse Trentadue, whose brother was tortured to death while in federal custody in a case of mistaken identity, have revealed that federal agents were associating with McVeigh prior to the attack. And the offices of the ATF were empty when the bomb or bombs ripped through the building and demolishing a nursery, killing 17 children.

- At 5:10 p.m. Thursday, investigators of the bombings release photographs and video of two suspects. They ask for the public’s help in identifying the men.

- Around 10:20 p.m., shots are fired on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, just outside Boston.

- At 10:30 p.m., an MIT campus police officer who was responding to a disturbance is found shot multiple times in his vehicle, apparently in a confrontation with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. He is later pronounced dead.

- Shortly afterward, two armed men reportedly carjack a Mercedes SUV in Cambridge. A man who was in the vehicle is held for about a half hour and then released unharmed at a gas station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge.

- Police soon pursue the carjacked vehicle in Watertown, just west of Cambridge.

- Some kind of explosive devices are thrown from the vehicle in an apparent attempt to stop police. The carjackers and police exchange gunfire. A transit police officer is seriously injured. One suspect, later identified as Suspect No. 1 in the marathon bombings, is critically injured and later pronounced dead.

- Authorities launch a manhunt for the other suspect.

- Around 1 a.m. Friday, gunshots and explosions are heard in Watertown, just outside Boston. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents converge on a Watertown neighborhood. A helicopter circles overhead.

- Around 4:30 a.m., Massachusetts state and Boston police hold a short outdoor news briefing. They tell people living in that section of eastern Watertown to stay in their homes. They identify the carjackers as the same men suspected in the marathon bombings. Overnight, police also release a photograph of a man believed to be Suspect No. 2, apparently taken from store video earlier in the evening at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Cambridge. He is wearing a grey hoodie-style sweatshirt.

- Around 6:35 a.m., The Associated Press reports that the bomb suspects are from a Russian region near Chechnya and lived in the United States for at least one year.

- Around 6:45 a.m., The Associated Press identifies the surviving Boston bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, who has been living in Cambridge, Mass.

- Around 8:40 a.m., a U.S. law enforcement official and the uncle of the suspects confirm that the name of the slain suspect is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s older brother.

Joshua Dawson, a Beacon Hill resident and candidate for the Massachusetts state House of Representatives, told HuffPost that Beacon Hill’s location may make it easier for investigators.

“One thing about this neighborhood, is that there are banks all over Boylston Street, and they all have cameras in their windows,” said Dawson. “So they’re going to catch this person, no doubt about it,” he said in an interview.